G Project is not only one of the most prolific adult brands in Japan, it also produces toys with some of the best box art in the industry (up there with Tama Toys and Toy's Heart, in our humble opinion). We took a look at three recent releases from G Project, available from our friends at Kanojo Toys. We all love maids -- from French maids cleaning our home in our fantasies to the maids serving male customers in cafes in Akihabara -- and G Project already rewarded that fetish with a great toy. The Goku-Tama Virgin Soft is a follow-up to the original Goku-Tama Virgin stroker, and now with ...

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We are always pleased to welcome old friends, especially when they give as much as this one. EXE has returned with another entry in the popular Puni Ana-roid series of powered masturbator toys (itself, a kind of sub-series in the long-running Puni Ana line of hentai onaholes). The recently released Puni Ana-roid 3 Maid Mouth is, as the name suggests, a blowjob toy with a mouth hole shape. It keeps the futuristic, cyberpunk theme of the previous toys but here ups the ante with maid-fantasy box art (created by, like before, the awesome maruku). Even better, EXE has integrated the maid ...

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Since the Olympics are just around the corner, despite no one apparently wanting them, we wanted to share this new release from the always-dependable Toy's Heart. The Super Hard and Tight Athletics Girl is a durable, tough onahole inspired by a sporty Japanese student with a killer body. The exterior is bronze and tanned, as this young woman spends most of her time outside on the running track, honing her vagina into a rewardingly tight tunnel. This being Japan, there are plenty of other great new releases right now. We were browsing the digital shelves of our friends Kanojo Toys for ...

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The comedian Jim Jefferies recently came to Japan for his weekly Comedy Central show and made a clickbaity segment called "Japanese Millennials Aren't Having Sex?" (or, uncensored, "Why Aren't Japanese Millennials Fucking?"). We'll let you be the judge of how much this is just a case of "laughing at strange Asians" or taking a genuine if comic look at a social phenomenon. One of the interviewees included a maid, whose line of work was suggested as a reason that men don't want to have sex because the experience of a maid cafe and other fantasy-fulfillment services suppress actual desire. ...

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It was only a matter of time before someone came up with a way of linking maid cafes and hostess bars with digital idols and adult virtual reality. Behold the VR hostess cafe. Yumenographia is not a physical space, but exists purely in a digital realm: it's waiting for your patronage whenever and wherever you put on a VR headset. It is staffed by hostesses/maids who are, of course, entirely "fake" -- in the sense that they are digital avatars. But, and this is a big "but," the hostesses are real in the sense that they are the avatars of genuine people, rather than characters. At some remote ...

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Every few weeks an article does the rounds of the world media -- typically a translated news wire piece or something rustled up by a foreign stringer according to overseas editors' demands. The narrative is predictable. Japan is full of sexless youth; Japan is full of sexual fetishes. Japanese anime is child porn; Akihabara is a den of immorality and vice. Of course, there are elements of truth in all of this but such nuanced, sympathetic approaches are not what gets traffic. So you see articles like this on Deutsche Welle by Julian Ryall, saying that "Japan's 'maid cafes' [are] a cover ...

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Tokyo Reporter had an intriguing (if worrying) article recently from the Japanese media about a maid cafe in Roppongi being raided for employing underage girls. Officers took Ryuji Shimizu, 41, the manager of Archangels Tokyo, into custody for allegedly employing a 16-year-old girl as a waitress after 10 p.m. — a violation of the Law Regulating Adult Entertainment Businesses. The girl, who was attired in a light kimono known as a yukata, received an hourly wage of 1,050 yen per hour. This reminds us of the recent girls' bar scandal in Osaka and it seems police are now cracking ...

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It's not looking good for Akihabara's maid cafes as customers drift away from paying exorbitant prices for cups of coffee where there are no "extras". According to a media report, maid cafes started in Akihabara in 2001 and then you get visit on for a drink for a mere ¥500. (These days it is more like double that or more!) Based on national database figures, there were a mere 132 maid cafes in Akiba at the end of 2011. Since the peak was 282 cafes, this means 150 -- over half -- have closed. In the decade the world economy has hardly done so well and Japan in particular is ...

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Do you like Akihabara maids? Who doesn't?! Even if otaku idol girls are not your thing, everyone can still see that an Akihabara maid cafe lady is a hottie that needs to be given the real customer attention she demands. Now you can... with just your hand. The Akiba Maid Onahole has been cloned from a genuine Akibahara maid. Now you can pump away inside a maid till your heart's content every day -- and without paying the silly table charges they slap on you in Akiba. We visited one maid cafe last year and were a bit disappointed, to be honest. They were employing ...

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Japan may well have recently officially entered recession again but that does not seem to impact Nipponbashi, Osaka's run-down area known for its electronics stores and sex industry (imagine Akihabara combined with Kabukicho). Osakans have always had very good heads for business and it seems, despite the nation's economic woes, that Nipponbashi establishments are defying the overall turn towards offering cheaper goods and services a la UNIQLO et al. Rather, they are cunningly ripping people off in the maid cafes and sex shops. As reported over on Tokyo Reporter, one maid cafe in ...

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